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Every so often, a newspaper story is borne out by pieces in the very same day’s paper.

In the Sept. 18 Inside Business section on Page F2, a USA Today article described a Harvard Business School study, “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided,” which concluded that our country’s inability to “reclaim its elite position in the global marketplace” is due to our fractious, hyper-polarized “broken political system and coarse presidential campaign.”

Perfectly timed to confirm this contention were two letters from the right-wing perspective. Herbert Preuitt’s Sept. 18 letter echoed Trump’s rejection of political correctness because it forces us to “avoid saying the truth.” Preuitt closed by denigrating the liberal/progressive perspective as “personal responsibility averse.”

Richard Kelber said in his Sept. 18 letter that Colin Kaepernick and his supporters have “the right under the First Amendment to voice [their] opinion[s],” but “Canada has room for people with their opinion.”

One can only infer from Kelber’s last statement that he believes that his U.S. does not really have room for Kaepernick’s brand of free speech.

I encourage Preuitt and Kelber to read the Inside Business article and consider that their type of right-wing intolerance only serves to further polarize and weaken this country.